“In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.” ThinkingWayDoeIdeasMorningCreativeFourWonderfulWalkingActivitySpendingStoresYesterdayDepartmentDelightfulSpending TimeCreative Ideas Book:The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921 Source: The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921
“Every morning I'd have coffee with my wife and we would discuss ideas. Sixty percent of what I did for the stores was concepts. The other forty percent was correcting and cleaning up other concepts in house, or doing final art on my concepts. Most of my concepts were so finished they could turn them over to somebody else.” ArtIdeasTurnsHouseMorningWifePercentConceptsFinalsMy WifeFinishedStoresCoffeeFortySixtyEvery MorningCleaningCorrectingCleaning Up Author:Mike Royer
“For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending on what is appropriate, you wait until you are greeted, you make polite chitchat about the weather or some such, and when the salesperson asks what they can do for you, then and only then do you bring up the vulgar business of the transaction you require.” IfsDesireAsksWaitingCan DoMorningExampleStoresWeatherParisAppropriatePoliteVulgarTransactionsSalesperson Book:Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel Source: Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel
“Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldYearsTwoStatesJobsGuyDecisionMorningMusic IsHundredYears AgoStoresJewelsGroceriesGrocery StoresBlake Author:Tom Verlaine
“I think comedy is on an organic upsurge right now because when I started, it was 1978 at The Comedy Store and Letterman had just stopped emceeing his morning show.” ThinkingShowsMorningComedyRight NowStoresLetterman Author:Bob Saget